Word: fake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this new park has the status of a real-life city in the state of Florida. Soon it will have its own government and pay taxes like a city (although a totally non-functional one.) One can imagine a series of non-functional cities appearing across the nation, offering fake hotels, fake schools, with robots in attendance. Even worse, one can imagine Andy Warhol constructing his version of Disneyland in the East Village...
...thing to do. Hughes has dictated his autobiography-from his Houston childhood through his careening career as moviemaker, airline owner, speed-record breaker, electronic tycoon, husband, and archrecluse. To help him tell his story, Hughes has appropriately chosen a fiction writer, Clifford Irving, author of several novels and Fake, the biography of the Hungarian forger of modern art, Elmyr de Hory. LIFE will print three 10,000 word installments of the book beginning in early March, and McGraw-Hill will publish the 230,000 word volume a few weeks later. Characteristically, the taping sessions for the book were shrouded...
...More significant, Marlowe's testimony suggested a bizarre version of how and why Frazier committed the murders. Marlowe says Frazier told him that he broke into the Ohta house and was "incredibly upset" to find what he thought was an animal-skin bedspread there (actually, it was a fake fur). Frazier was also highly infuriated that the ostentation of the Ohtas' $250,000 hilltop house was despoiling nature. "It blew my mind," he told Marlowe...
...that time the 50 shares were worth a total of $300,000, but they paid only about what the stock had been worth in 1962. In an effort to disguise the bargain, Mrs. Everett signed a "letter of intent" to sell the stock that carried a fake date...
...have said it is better to dissent after you have done your service. Now I believe you should do what your conscience dictates. It is hard for people my age to talk about the concept that someone would not want to serve. When I was young peopled used to fake their age to get in." McCloskey also limited his support of general amnesty for those who resist the draft and leave America. "There is one condition. You can't talk amnesty until the war is over; there should be two years of national service like working in a ghetto...